Liquid crystals are widely used in technologies such as displays, which manipulate their orientation to display colors across the spectrum.
Condensed Matter
Aug 27, 2019
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Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed the thinnest optical device in the world—a waveguide that is three layers of atoms thin.
Optics & Photonics
Aug 12, 2019
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Five years ago, Stanford postdoctoral scholar Momchil Minkov encountered a puzzle that he was impatient to solve. At the heart of his field of nonlinear optics are devices that change light from one color to another—a process ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 7, 2019
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July 15, 2019) Life depends on double-stranded DNA unwinding and separating into single strands that can be copied for cell division. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have determined at atomic resolution the ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 15, 2019
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The goal of the research, published July 11 in the journal Nature, was to engineer artificial proteins to self-assemble on a crystal surface by creating an exact match between the pattern of amino acids in the protein and ...
Biochemistry
Jul 10, 2019
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In work that upends materials design, researchers have demonstrated with computer simulations that they can design a crystal and work backward to the particle shape that will self-assemble to create it.
Nanophysics
Jul 8, 2019
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In many materials, electrical resistance and voltage change in the presence of a magnetic field, usually varying smoothly as the magnetic field rotates. This simple magnetic response underlies many applications including ...
General Physics
Jun 21, 2019
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It's not an electron. But it sure does act like one.
Nanophysics
Jun 20, 2019
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With a simple twist of the fingers, one can create a beautiful spiral from a deck of cards. In the same way, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 20, 2019
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Crystal growth is a crucial issue for fundamental science and wide applications. The growth morphology and speed are generally determined by an interplay between macroscopic thermodynamic driving forces and the microscopic ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 5, 2019
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